Geared towards the general public, Soar.Earth presents an online platform that resembles a digital, free-of-charge atlas. Pooling in from crowd-sourced content, including satellite imagery, hobbyist drone photos and environmental remote sensing data, it almost feels […]
Dramatic growth reported in glacial lakes – A study by University of Calgary Dr. Dan Shugar, an associate professor at the University of Calgary and the lead researcher for this study, along with his team […]
Facebook buys start-up in latest push to take on Apple and Google at street-level mapping To take on Apple and Google at mapping the world, Facebook has acquired a Swedish start-up, Mapillary. The seven-year-old start-up […]
Satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continue to track its movement and progress. You can see some of the images from those satellite observations above, which have been shared on […]
Is The GIS Market Vertically Challenged? Will Cadell attended GoGeomatics GeoIgnite event last spring in Ottawa, ON. During his time at this event, he did a presentation suggesting that “geospatial is a horizontal market hidden […]
ICEYE-X2 publishes first image The world’s largest Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation built by ICEYE has published its first image. The picture is of Natural Parks Aralar and Aizkorri-Aratz, Spain on December 7, 2018, taken […]
› Larger view As firefighters continue to battle the destructive Camp Fire in Northern California, the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has produced a new […]
Tracking climate change with LiDAR Donna Kirkwood, the chief scientist at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), marked the 100-year anniversary of the Petawawa Research Forest with a demonstration of Contour, a 3-D laser scanner. Contour uses […]